Lead PL/I Design & Development Consultant

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd; Australia; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Lead PL/I Design & Development Consultant to provide hands-on technical leadership to a PL/I team on IBM mainframe platforms for Australian client projects.

You will drive complex analysis, design and development, perform performance tuning, and mentor developers, delivering robust PL/I solutions that integrate with VSAM, DB2 and MQ in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive commercial experience designing and developing enterprise applications in PL/I on IBM mainframe platforms.
• 20+ years of mainframe experience, ideally in banking or similarly regulated sectors.
• Strong knowledge of VSAM, DB2, CICS and IBM MQ.
• Hands-on in design, build, test and performance tuning.
• Experience with large legacy applications and risk analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical analysis and detailed design of complex PL/I changes.
• Develop complex PL/I components hands-on.
• Review designs and code within the development team.
• Collaborate to resolve complex engineering problems.
• Support estimation, planning, testing and production readiness.
• Mentor and transfer PL/I knowledge to the team.

Skills

PL/I design

IBM mainframe

VSAM

DB2

CICS

IBM MQ

Performance tuning

Troubleshooting

Technical leadership

Job description

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract

Lead PL/I Design & Development Consultant

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Australia | Posted on 10/06/2026

• City Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra
• Country Australia

About Us

AboutXPT

• XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in 2016, is a Software Services company


• XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.


• We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.


• XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.


• We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.

Job Description

LeadPL/I Design and Development Consultant

We require a highlyexperienced, hands-on PL/I design and development consultant toprovide technical leadership to the existing development team.

Teamcomprises experienced former COBOL developers who have approximately three tofour years’ experience developing and supporting the PL/I-based ManTecapplication. The consultant will complement the team by bringing substantialexperience from significant PL/I initiatives and deep expertise in complexapplication design, development, troubleshooting and performance tuning.

Thisis not a production support, routine maintenance or general developmentcapacity role. The consultant will lead complex technical analysis anddesign, work hands-on with the code, provide technical assurance, and helpthe existing team resolve the most demanding engineering challenges.

Keyresponsibilities

• Lead the technical analysis and detaileddesign of complex PL/I application changes.


• Establishpractical design and development approaches for the Phoenix solution.


• Undertakehands-on development of complex or high-risk PL/I components.


• Analyse largeand complex existing PL/I codebases, including online, batch and integrationprocessing.


• Lead complextroubleshooting, root-cause analysis and performance-tuning activities.


• Reviewtechnical designs and code produced by the development team.


• Identifytechnical risks, design weaknesses and potential implementation issues.


• Workcollaboratively with the development team to resolve complex engineeringproblems.


• Supporttechnical estimation, development planning, testing, implementation andproduction-readiness activities.


• Providetechnical leadership while strengthening the team’s PL/I capability throughpractical knowledge transfer.

Mandatoryexperience and capabilities

• Extensive commercial experience designing anddeveloping enterprise applications in PL/I on IBM mainframe platforms.


• A careerdepth typically associated with 20 or more years of relevant mainframeapplication experience, preferably within banking, insurance or asimilarly complex regulated environment.


• Substantialhands-on involvement across solution design, detailed technical design,build, testing, implementation, troubleshooting and tuning.


• Deeptechnical knowledge of VSAM, including complex file structures, accesspatterns, performance, concurrency, integrity and recoverability.


• Deeppractical knowledge of IBM MQ, including application integration,message processing, exception handling, diagnostics and performance.


• Demonstratedability to understand and safely modify large, complex and potentially poorlydocumented legacy applications.


• Strongdiagnostic and problem-solving capability across online, batch, data-accessand integration processing.


• Experienceproviding hands-on technical leadership, design assurance and code reviewwithin an established development team.


• Ability towork effectively with experienced developers without duplicatingresponsibilities or operating purely as an adviser.


• Strongwritten and verbal communication skills, including the production of cleartechnical designs and implementation guidance.


• Good working knowledge of Db2,particularly for evaluating solution options or comparing Db2 and VSAMdata-access approaches.


• Experiencewith CICS and high-volume mainframe transaction-processing applications.


• Experiencewithin banking, insurance or another highly regulated industry.


• Experiencewith complex financial calculations, batch processing, reconciliation andregulatory processing.


• Experiencemigrating or restructuring PL/I applications to remove a legacy databasedependency.


• Familiaritywith mainframe performance-monitoring, debugging and diagnostic toolsets.